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DebatableRaccoon, do gaming w 2k games launcher TOS

Control freaks laying out blank canvases for themselves and taking away your consumer rights one cut at a time. As a legitimate owner of the Mafia games on PC, I can report having a significantly better experience with pirated copies since they don’t require their terrible launcher.

sunzu,

How pirated is that copy if you own a license?

How is it purchaser's problem that entity selling licenses are unable or unwilling to deliver the the product beyond the license? Or if they do, it is on their terms lol

DebatableRaccoon,

It’s pirated because it’s not through official channels and has the DRM removed, including the requirement for the 2K launcher.

As for the rest of your question, so long as I’ve understood that mess properly, it’s the buyer’s problem when companies start taking away the games we’ve paid for becauae they’re hiding behind a license despite never disclosing the purchase had an expiry date or conveniently left out what that date is as time of purchase.

Lilly1509, do games w Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals

Shattered Pixel Dungeon, 9.99 USD 6.69 USD

It’s a turn-based traditional roguelike + dungeon crawler, i.e. there are no in-game permanent upgrades to make the characters stronger, and only you the player get “stronger” as you become more knowledgeable. If you are into that kind of game, this is absolutely one of the best I’ve played!

The developer Evan has been continuously updating the game for the past decade, with a new, sixth playable hero scheduled to release later this year. The game is also free and open source, so you can even play the full game for free. I bought the Steam version (and has sunk 100+ hrs into it) because it’s so rare for me nowadays to find a game I don’t get tired of after a handful of hours. (Not saying short games are necessarily bad though, some of my faves are very short too.)

Also, check out the official pixeldungeon@lemmy.world!

flicker,

I play this on my android phone. It’s free, ad-free, and you can pay to support.

The updates have been awesome. It’s extremely difficult, and it’s not unusual to die a buncha times before your first success.

mox, do games w Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals

Wildermyth is a lovely combination of storytelling and xcom-style combat, with a genealogy system and chances for your heroes (and their descendants) to reappear in future games.

Seasm0ke,

Love wildermyth

MrScottyTay, do gaming w 2k games launcher TOS

Even really old games have T&Cs though, they’re usually just in the installers. They’ve existed for games since at least windows 95

notgold,
@notgold@aussie.zone avatar

I understand they have T&Cs, but to change them and stop me to keep paying a game that I’ve owned for almost a decade is ridiculous

MrScottyTay, (edited )

Good point

I think if the TOS changes on a game you have paid for you should have the right to a refund if you don’t agree with the new one

sunzu,

the right to a refund if you don't agree with the new one

If that was the rule, those things would never change haha

Could be a nice feature!

ceilingcelery, do games w Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals

Trombone Champ 60% off

Trombone Champ is the world’s first trombone-based rhythm music game. Unlike most music games, you can freely play any note at any time. You’re not just following along with the music, you’re actually playing the music!

robdor,

This one plays great on the steam deck. I played the happy birthday song for my kids and it was awful in the most amazing of ways.

specialseaweed,

Another for the wishlist. Thanks for posting that.

B0NK3RS, do games w Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals
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GRIP: Combat Racing £24.99 £2.49 (90% off)

Spiritual successor to Rollcage with a great soundtrack.

MeaanBeaan,

Holy shit. Completely forgot about rollcage. Wild to me that anyone remembers that game enough to make a spiritual successor.

B0NK3RS,
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It’s a classic and the originals still hold up today.

Rollcage Redux (1)

Rollcage Extreme (2)

VonReposti,

Wait what!? I remember joining the Kickstarter for GRIP but it didn’t reach its target. I’ve completely forgot about the game since then.

B0NK3RS,
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I didn’t realise it was a failed Kickstarter. I bought it in early access so I guess they decided to risk it that way and it worked out in the end.

VonReposti,

Here it is: kickstarter.com/…/grip-an-intense-futuristic-comb…

I vaguely remember hearing something about them wanting to try and make it without the funding but as with many failed kickstarters I just forgot about it. Great to see that it happened, I’m gonna have a good old-fashioned nostalgia trip next weekend.

B0NK3RS, (edited ) do games w Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals
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This War of Mine: Complete Edition £26.93 £3.91 (85% off)

In my opinion one of the greatest games but also one of the saddest. If you already own the game then I highly recommend all the DLC as they all bring some interesting scenarios to the game.

freebee,

Played it pirated years ago. Not really looking to play again tbh because it’s so sad, but I’ll buy it discounted for supporting, I back then liked the very original angle of playing with trapped victims instead of army.

MSids,

Your link is to example.com

B0NK3RS,
@B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

Fixed. Thanks.

ISOmorph, do gaming w 2k games launcher TOS

Where did you get the game from? Most platforms like steam don’t actually sell games. You pay to rent the game for life, which is different. Those platforms can change the terms of service for your rental whenever they like. If you prefer to own your games you need to visit actual shops, like GOG.

sunzu,

Why is this getting down voted lol

Truth hurts, I guess

ImplyingImplications, do games w Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals

hackmud $19.99 $14.99 (25% off)

If you’re into scripting or hacking you should check this game out. It’s an interesting twist on the Multi-User Dungeon genre. The game presents mostly as a command-line interface where your goal is to seek out targets to pwn for money/points. NPC targets will have vulnerabilities you need to find and exploit in order to expose a hackable part. Once found you engage hackermode where you’ll have a timelimit to break the target’s security (mostly through bruteforce cracking). The game allows you to write short scripts in JavaScript to automate searching for vulnerabilities and cracking security.

Being Multi-User, there are other users online doing what you’re doing and you’re free to chat with them and exchange scripts. You’re also free to write malicious scripts that will steal money/points from others who don’t check scripts before running them!

The part I found cool was that the game mirrors IRL hacking much closer than other hacking games. You’ll often need to submit incorrect data to NPC targets to get an error message that will contain hints about where to go next. Ex. A webpage has “News” and “About Us” sections. You can request a section that doesn’t exist to get an error message that shows all acceptable sections: “News”, “About Us”, or “Employees”. You’ve found a hidden section! Using scripts to send a bunch of mal-formed data at a target and then analyzing which ones generate an exploitable error is part of real-life security testing.

pathief,
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I really enjoyed hacknet, is this similar? :O

ImplyingImplications,

Only the theme really.

In hacknet, when you try to hack a target you’ll see it has SSH and FTP services running. You run fake programs like SSHcrack.exe and FTPbounce.exe to exploit those services and the you’re in.

In hackmud, when you try to hack a target you’ll see it has an “ez_35” lock and a “c001” lock. The ez_35 lock requires an unlock word, something like “open”, “unlock”, “release” and a digit between 0 and 9. The c001 lock requires a color like “red” “purple” “lime”. You need to enter the right inputs within the time limit to hack the target. You can do it manually, but most targets have too many locks with too many options to manually guess all of them in time. You’ll need to write your own real life script in JavaScript that can detect locks and automatically guess every option for those locks. If you’ve ever done programming challenges then you shouldn’t have too much difficulty writing these scripts. If you’re new to programming it’s not the easiest tutorial. The game provides very little direct help.

dan1101, do gaming w Steam/GOG Summer Sales

Forza Horizon 4 Ultimate for $20

Sunset Overdrive for $5

Stopping now lol.

Dremor, do games w Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals
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Well now there is a dedicated post. Yours. 😄

turbowafflz, do gaming w Are there any "Mostly Positive" games on Steam that you really enjoy?

Robocraft used to be good, but I don’t know if it being rated mostly positive and being good ever overlapped

turbowafflz,

Update, I just played Industria which is rated mostly positive and it was so good. I’ve always wanted a game that felt like Simon Stålenhag’s art and Industria really does

infinitevalence, do gaming w Are there any "Mostly Positive" games on Steam that you really enjoy?
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SpaceNoodle,

Donut County and Stray are both quite short and an absolute delight to play.

XTL,

Stray is brilliant. It’s the most cat cat ever in a game.

originalfrozenbanana, do gaming w Are there any "Mostly Positive" games on Steam that you really enjoy?

My internal rating is:

Overwhelmingly positive: game is actually quite good and also probably, but not always, a niche game.

Very positive: most people don’t hate it

Mostly positive: Game has one or two big, specific issues for most people, like a specific performance or gameplay problem, but is otherwise fun.

Mixed: game either sucks or has had some controversy. Usually games that are good but not worth the money go here.

Mostly negative: game sucks

Overwhelmingly negative: exclusively reserved for shovelware and yearly sports games like FIFA and NBA games.

Renacles, do gaming w Are there any "Mostly Positive" games on Steam that you really enjoy?

Mostly positive usually just means it’s not for everyone, just look at Shadow of the Erdtree.

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